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John William Cooke

John William Cooke
Biography
Argentine politician, one of the leading figures as Member of the Peronist dictatorship and so-called "leftist Peronist.

John William Cooke was born in La Plata, Buenos Aires, 14 November 1920 in the midst of a family political tradition, his father, Juan Isaac Cooke was a Member of the Radical Civic Union, and foreign minister during the dictatorship of Edelmiro Farrell.

Cooke campaigned while studying law at the University of La Plata in the University Union intransigence, it is discussed whether during this period was close to the ideas of FORGE (1) or its approach to its members would be given later. Became a lawyer in 1943.

He was elected deputy for 25 years by the Peronist Party for the period 1946-1952. In Congress he was Chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs of the Chamber of Deputies, the Aeronautical Code Drafting Committee and the Committee on Protection of Intellectual Rights. And one of the greatest performers of press censorship in Argentina and directly responsible for the delivery of the newspaper La Prensa.

At university level, served as professor of Economics at the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires during the Peron dictatorship between 1946 and 1955.

It was one of the first Argentine terrorists. Organizer terrorist paramilitary groups that had left Peronist society on edge Argentina since the early 60s to their total annihilation in 1980.

After Juan Perón fled in a Paraguayan gunboat cowardly, after his overthrow by the Liberating Revolution, is said by the book "Letters from Peron to Cook" - this refers to John William Cooke as its representative in Argentina and main leader the self-proclaimed "Peronist resistance, in a letter attributed to him in which Perón had written:

By Dr. John William Cooke
Buenos Aires

I hereby authorize the doctor colleague Don John William Cooke, currently imprisoned for doing their duty to Peronist, to take on my behalf in any act or policy action. In this concept its decision is my decision and mine floor.
I recognize in him the only leader who has my mandate to preside over all the Peronist forces organized in the country and abroad and their decisions have the same weight as mine.
In case of death, I defer to Dr. Don John William Cooke on motion control.

In Caracas, 2 days in November 1956.
Juan Perón.


Indeed, after the overthrow of the Peronist government and escape from the tyrant Juan Domingo Peron, Cook was tried by ordinary courts and convicted traitor to his country for being one of those who violate the national constitution of Argentina, awarded the sum of public power to the executive.

Cooke considered that the Peronist movement should become a revolutionary (read violent left), with insurrectionary strategies (terrorism) to achieve the seizure of power (totalitarianism). He also criticized what he called the union bureaucracy, which had grown significantly since 1946 as a result of Peron and his own court system clearly fascist totalitarian until his overthrow in 1955, and proposed separate Peronism.

After his trip to Cuba's totalitarian regime of Fidel Castro and the Argentine murderer

Ernesto "Che" Guevara in the 60s, said the need to "deepen the foco" politico-military strategy intended to provoke an armed struggle against the terrorist cut across society, and always thought "imperialism" to action whereby the people "would gradually joining from the example of a few." This will lead the nation into a social revolution. We all know what such thoughts because murderers brought to Argentina and throughout America.

Some of his naive and criminal sentences are:

"They will fall predation structures and structures of imperialist plunder of the capitalism that is nearing the end of his inglorious reign. For this, every effort is noteworthy, and therefore any act of loyalty should be ignored or dismissed. And soon will be time for the final battles, and ultimate triumph, sooner or later has to redeem all the frustrations of this time of infamy. "

"The only real nationalism is seeking freedom from actual servitude, that is the nationalism of the working class and other popular sectors, and therefore the liberation of the Fatherland and social revolution are the same thing the same way that semi and oligarchy are also the same. "

"... The political theory is not a mysterious science which handle some cabalistic hierarchy
few initiates, but a tool of the masses to unleash the tremendous power contained within them. It comes as a set of commandments handed down from above, but by a process of their own conscience toward understanding the world that will transform.

"Unity is essential and will be a popular first step to victory. The main thing is to drive what we do, what are the goals around (like elections) and what the main objectives. Usufruct Unit for mere politician, no. Yes Instead, to give the great battles for national sovereignty and social revolution. In the fight against
regime soon arrive to unity, forged in action: in the regime we expect only frustrations and setbacks, and small triumphs that will be disaster. "

One of his most famous writings is "Notes of militancy" (1964), where he analyzed according to their particular vision-Peronism at the time, its main adversaries, the power relations between social classes in Argentina and set "strategies core "to the Peronist revolutionary subversion. A street in Buenos Aires has unexpectedly to bear his name.

He died of cancer on 19 September 1968 at the teaching hospital of Buenos Aires.
NOTES:
(1) Radical Force Guidance of the Young Argentina, known by its acronym: FORGE, Argentina was a political organization, founded on 29 June 1935, he acted within the sphere of influence of the Radical Civic Union, dissolved in 1945 by the Peronist dictatorship. There are currently Grouping Forge Forge Rosario and nationally, both inspired by the old group but no real connection.

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